967 private quotes tagged death

“Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.” — Dean Koontz

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“Death is not the biggest fear we have our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.” — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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“Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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“Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.” — Elie Wiesel

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“I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.” — Desmond Tutu

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“Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.” — J. K. Rowling

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“I am against the death penalty.” — Andrew Cuomo

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“People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.” — Taylor Caldwell

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“Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.” — Henry Van Dyke

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“Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.” — Theodor Adorno

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“Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.” — Jean Paul

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“If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.” — Kurt Cobain

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“Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.” — Bill Shankly

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“Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.” — Christopher Fry

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“'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.” — Marquis de Sade

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“The darkness of death is like the evening twilight it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.” — Jean Paul

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“How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.” — George MacDonald

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“Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.” — Stanislav Grof

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“We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.” — Doug Coupland

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“I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.” — Quentin Tarantino

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“If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.” — Marilyn Manson

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“The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.” — Henry Miller

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“My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.” — Gwyneth Paltrow

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“Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.” — William Hazlitt

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“Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.” — Keith Richards

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